Jeykell and Hyde novella summary

• Dr Jeykell

  • Respectable doctor, represents insatiable curiosity
• Mr Hyde

  • Jeykell's doppelgänger, represents mankind's evil instinct
• Mr Utterson

  • Respectable lawyer, moral compass of novella
• Enfield

  • Utterson's cousin, represents repression
• Poole


  • Jeykell's butler, presents loyalty
• Sir Danvers Carew

  • MP, represents Hyde's disregard of conventional authority
• 1: Enfield witnesses


  1. Hyde trampling over girl

  2. Tells Utterson
• Utterson discovers


  Jeykell is 'friends' with Hyde
• Utterson visits Lanyon

  They have arguments over scientific differences
• 1 year later

  Maid sees Hyde beat and murder Sir Danvers Carew (no reason)
• Lanyon gives Utterson a letter


  Tells him not to open until Jeykell is dead
• Lanyon dies

  From shock
• Poole and Utterson break into Jeykell's laboratory


  1. Find Hyde's body there

  2. With a letter from Dr Jeykell to Utterson
• Lanyon's letter says that Hyde came to his house and drank a potion to become Jeykell
• Jeykell's letter says that he developed a drug that turned him into Hyde
• Ingredients from potion were become less readily available so he was gonna run out